Very good news! Not only is Abrego Garcia alive, Salvadoran authorities, reversing their initial refusal, allowed him to meet with Senator Van Hollen, who called Abrego Garcia’s wife to “pass along his message of love.” The police-state machine blinking in the harsh light of global scrutiny?
In the final stages of a (currently very long) essay on Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P., a dominican friar and Catholic radical of the interwar period, deeply influential on Dorothy Day, Chesterton, Maritain and (I strongly suspect) J.R.R. Tolkien. McNabb’s activism was in part an extension of the Arts and Crafts movement’s political expression,…
A teacher at the school where my husband works said he shared my newsletter on writing by hand with his students to help them understand why they have to learn penmanship and turn in handwritten papers. I love that my writing might help them see the value and beauty in doing something difficult and countercultural.
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“He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
(Philippians 2:8-11)
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I’ve often criticized our modern politics for having a very short “vision” of basically the two years between elections. Reading about DOGE’s bumbling with the oil drilling has helped me realize that situation is going to get much worse, as they cripple or eliminate features of our government that actually had a long view. Along those lines, I think more attention needs to be paid to the closure of our seed storage bunker, after 100 years of keeping a wide variety of seeds viable in case of unf…
This isn’t about government efficiency. It’s about building the case (no matter how flawed and inaccurate) that will be used to make the case for budget reconciliation so that the billionaires can continue to receive massive tax cuts. Medicaid will be annihilated in the dead of night before they Jam the tax bill through the House. Mark my words. And they still will increase the deficit by $2.5T. Imagine if Biden or Harris would have suggested that plan.
